The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests

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The Interview That Ships to Production | AngelListPricing + ReturnsPricing + ReturnsDisclaimerDisclaimer:The information contained herein is provided for informational and discussion purposes only and is not intended to be a recommendation for any investment, service, product, or other advice of any kind, and shall not constitute or imply an offer of any kind. Any investment opportunities and/or products or services shown here will only be completed pursuant to formal offering materials, a letter of intent, and/or any other agreements as determined by AngelList containing full details regarding risks, minimum investment, fees, and expenses of such transaction. The terms of any product, service, or particular investment opportunity, including size, costs, and other characteristics, are set forth in the applicable constituent documents for such product, service or particular investment opportunity and may differ materially from those presented in this presentation. Such terms are subject to change without notice. For more information on AngelList and its products and services, please see here.Quotes included in these materials related to AngelList's services should not be construed in any way as an endorsement of AngelList's advice, analysis, or other service rendered to its clients.;We give them access to the testing platform's actual codebase (the same Next.js app they just used to take the assessment) and ask them to ship a pull request.No contrived task. No "build a TODO app." Just: look at this production codebase, find something worth improving, and ship it.What happens next has consistently surprised us.What candidates actually builtOne candidate noticed that the Part 2 coding environment forced you to choose between the AI chat panel and your test cases. If you wanted to refine a test case while writing code, you had to navigate back to Part 1. So he built a tabbed sidebar that lets candidates toggle between the AI assistant and an inline test case editor, com...